CASTING AROUND
Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin will reunite with “9 to 5” director-screenwriter Colin Higgins on a spy comedy titled “Washington Girls,” pending completion of his script. . . . Audrey Landers and Mary Crosby, former wanton women on “Dallas,” play the wives of Johann Strauss in the TV film “The Waltz King,” now shooting in Austria. . . . John Denver and Cindy Williams stop rotten real estate developers from turning an orphanage into a factory in the Disney TV movie “Leftovers.” . . . In an episode of “You Again,” the Beach Boys draft John Stamos as a part-time drummer for a concert and sing their new single “California Dreamin,’ ” a remake of the Mamas and Papas tune. . . . Ray Charles will play himself and comes to the rescue of Judith Light by writing her an original song for her ad campaign in an episode of “Who’s the Boss?”
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